Pellet heads!! What's up today?

Well we have harped and harped on how important it is to keep that beast clean, you have to learn or a lot worse can happen. You haven't got the greatest environment to operate a fire in to start with. All of the signs were there and to top it off you need more heat than most of us crazies. Hubby should be getting tired of this.

 

Yes I know it is early for me to be posting, getting ready for my conference call. They ain't going to really hear what I have to tell them, to give you a heads up the pension folks I've been dealing with didn't even commit a computer screw up like this, I'll have see if SIGSoft is still publishing software blunders, if so, I have a candidate for them. I even took pictures so to speak.

 

Sorry to hear of the "train wreck"

 

Meeting over. Let's see, now who can I agitate?

Take away from today next time go speaker phone. It was a bit warm there (Philippines).

Oh yeah, take a look see here.


Notice anything, left side is what it gets, and right side is where it puts it and what it gets called once it is there.

The shot is of a graphical FTP client that has been around a while. While the client is very robust, full featured, and reliable (I've used it for several 100 GB of transfers) I'm pretty sure it doesn't do what it looks like there.

I've got a few more screen shot to take. Maybe I'll post a few

 

How many tons since Sept?

 

That's a lot of pellets since Sept! Gotta keep that baby clean!!
I think my new Englander needs to get the leaf blower more often. Will try to do it every 35 bags or so.

 

Do you only clean the stove after every ton or are there other lesser cleanings in between?

 

I think I have only burned about a ton and a half this winter. Since we buttoned up this place, it heats up too well. I am always complaining about the heat to a "deaf ear" wife. I sleep with no covers. Burning even fewer pellets now that hat the furnace has been hooked up. Upstairs heats only with gas and what heat come up from down here.
Other news. Air outside is very spring like. I'm no fool about the weather and know that winter is winter until it isn't. It is still just early Feb. we have this month and March to get dumped on. But the melting will be much easier when it happens as there is no ice on the ground. The snow around here is gone for now. Anticipate some tomorrow and maybe next Tuesday.
Went to the orthopedist today and had my knee injected again with the steroid. After another 3 months, I can get the Synvisc again. Can't say the Synvisc did much, but I'm not going to give up on it. With the holidays behind me, I am back on my diet. lost 6 lbs. Tons more to go!

 

This is how my life rolls - have the Explorer, doesn't snow but 3 times in 2.5 months. Explorer in the shop since Tuesday night (at that time, no forecast snow at all) - 4-6" today (biggest snowfall this season - and they keep upping it), snow for Sunday, and another snow storm for Monday. Left my house at 3:30 this morning to beat the crappy weather in to work and had to wait for someone with the alarm code to let me in. I haven't driven a non-4WD in snow since 1986, I am NOT a fan of having to do it now

 

Left at 3:30AM Wow I thought I got up early to get to work here on the farm. Obviously you made it in safely? Yesterday I went to pick up the new pellets. Halfway there I stopped for gas, and something was leaking from the engine. This can't happen on my normal trips to the feed store a couple miles from the house, no it has to happen on a trip to civilization an hour away. I've been through this before, quickly scrambled under the truck and realized it was coolant. Check the cap and the upper hose, cap was cool to the touch and the hose was solid as a rock...not good. Diagnosis: thermostat stuck. A 21 year old truck always keeps me on my toes. I used to keep a couple of jugs of coolant/water mixes behind the seat in the previous truck for just such emergencies. I should've known to just keep one there for this inevitable occasion. I had to buy a gallon of mixed coolant, at a rip off price of about $13, yup they sell you 2 quarts of coolant for more $ than a gallon of coolant, just by adding water. I was able to complete the trip at 45 mph with no further leakage, assumption a partial blockage. So guess what I'm doing today?

 

Truck shopping?

 

Well my area forecast went from zero, to dusting, to 1-3 and now 3-5 inches all within a 12 hour period. Snowing and road looks greasy. Time to get to work and then clean up the driveway after that.

 

My honeys' Chevy Avalanch went in the shop this past Monday and she has a car for a rental. She is not a happy camper.

Her truck was hit at work while parked and the person that hit her has Hanover Insurance who is screwing her royally by refusing to give a like for like rental and trying to undercut the repair. She and her insurance company had to fight to get it upgraded from sub compact to mid size. I kept telling her to threaten with a lawyer but she got worn down and didnt want to deal with the a-hole at Hanover Insurance any longer.

When my truck was rear ended, Progressive Insurance told me, you get whatever you want as we HAVE to provide similar vehicle while in the body shop. Hanover is obviously a cut rate company and I would never do business with them after she has experienced this.

 

That is indeed unfortunate. Hard to understand a company doing that. They must know that if the give poor service, they will loose clients. Word gets around.
I have USAA and never a problem.